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Originally Posted by JackS
I am a bit disappointed by this sentiment for two reasons. First, a lot of the data in the Einstein Report is inconclusive.
This statement, directly from the report, essentially states that the exact number of times the individual from 548 made his or her attack cannot be known, because the logs no longer exist. It is perfectly "plausible" that another individual repeated the same attack elsewhere in the dome, or some sort of other interference occurred.
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I want to echo this point. By the mentor's own admission, he used the attack, but why should we believe his admission of guilt isn't the full story from his perspective? Every single one of us has been looking for someone or something to blame for what happened on Einstein. The full report has brought up a multitude of points of failure during the finals, and its really not hard to believe the answer to all of this is not as simple as blaming this all on one mentor. As soon as news broke that there was an attack during play, all of the failures on the field were attributed to that. But things just aren't that simple, and we discovered how many root causes for all the different problems there really were. But I firmly believe we still know far too little to place all of the blame on this one attacker. With thousands of incredibly smart people in the dome, its entirely possible that someone else used this attack, whether or not their team was on einstein, and whether or not they were fully aware of their actions.
We've heard 2 sides of the story so far, and unless someone would like to point out something I missed that puts them in direct conflict, I think it's only fair to evaluate this based on what we
know.
Everyone was feeling a lot of emotions at the moment, and the attack in response could have been from a moment of desperation. I'm not condoning what happened, but I am trying to understand it.